Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Princess Haiku's Season of Wildflowers

One of the best kept secrets of seasonally dry habitats in California known as chaparral, is that fire is required to germinate the gorgeous wildflowers that grow there. Seedlings appear in the ashy soil after fires. The fire is an essential and required element of the cycle. Follow this link for more photos and information on this amazing phenomena.

Eventually, said Princes Haiku, we all come to realize that we are wildflowers of the chaparral.

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Diane Dehler is a photographer and poet. Her flower photography has been featured on Haiga online and she has several thousand followers on facebook. Her multi-media video poem, "The Lotus" has received 3000+ views on youtube. As a poet she is known for her lyricism and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Prizes 2016. She received a degree from the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University, receiving the Outstanding Student of the Year Award. She is an English Language poet in the international literary scene and; has been published in numerous poetry journals and three anthologies. Mostly recently she has published in, The Artemis Review, Cultural Weekly, Edgar Allan Poet, The Mas Tequila Review, The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Munyori Literary Review, The Taj Mahal Review, Truck, Deepwater Literary Journal, Moonbathing: A Journal of Women’s Tanka, Lummox Journal and poeticdiversity.